Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:36:20 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



> Date:     Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:25:50 -0500

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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:26:46 -0500 (EST)

> From: Ronald Butters <amspeech[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acpub.duke.edu>

> Subject: Re: Asian and "PC"

>

> "Asian" seems to me to be broader in scope than "Oriental" had become

> before "Oriental" fell from grace.

>

> I still refuse to use the term "PC"

> until it is applied to euphemisms across the board and not

> just used for

> euphemisms that Pat Buchanan would sneer at. For example, why doesn't

> anyone call "prolife" a "PC" term that replaced the much more accurate

> "anti-abortion"? Euphemistic language games are at least as much a part

> of right-wing political endeavor as of the left, but only the left takes

> the hit when the term "PC" is employed. "PC" is in this sense in itself a

> right-wing "PC" term.

>

> On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Ron Rabin wrote:

>

> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:41:12 -0500

> > From: Ron Rabin <RABINRL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU>

> > Subject: Asian

> >

> > Has the meaning of Asian changed recently in American English?

> > When Oriental became no longer PC, Asian was substituted.  Does Asian

> > now mean what Oriental used to mean whatever Asian used to mean before

> > this substitution?

> > Ideas?

> > Ron Rabin

> > Buffalo State College